DavidWilde

What are our "takeaways" from the Anglican musical tradition?
It's not true that 'all' the Oxbridge colleges 'keep up pro ATBs, a choirmaster, and some boys singing daily,' Using Cambridge as the example, not all the colleges have a choir like those at Kings and St. John's. I sang…

Comment by DavidWilde September 2022 permalink
Prayers, please...
Praying!

Comment by DavidWilde August 2022 permalink
Scandals, publishers, questionable composers and running with torches. (Re: David Haas)
Britain does not have a single legal system. In England and Wales the outcome of a criminal trial is a verdict of guilty or not guilty, and the presumption of innocence means that the verdict should be not guilty unless guilt is proved beyond reason…

Comment by DavidWilde June 2020 permalink
Sad news, grief, and a hymn
I'm so sorry to hear this. Praying for you and for your family.

Comment by DavidWilde November 2019 permalink
Nick Gale
The collision actually happened in March 2015. Nick Gale had been Director of Music at St. George's Cathedral for 13 years.

Comment by DavidWilde December 2018 permalink
Why does it seem like so many choir directors are so disgruntled?
I agree 100 %with Salieri. Many of us have sometimes wished that our choir could sing better, but the flip side of that is the amazing moment when they sing something far better than could reasonably be expected of them. As long as any choir member …

Comment by DavidWilde September 2018 permalink
Practicing Pieces with a certain 8-letter 'A' Word During [Septuagesima and] Lent
Our former parish priest strictly forbade us to us the A word during rehearsals. We made sure that he was not within earshot when we rehearsed.

Comment by DavidWilde January 2018 permalink
Curious: Sing AND direct?
I did it from necessity (the previous director left but I was I was the only tenor in the choir at the time). It was not ideal. In particular, I felt that it was difficult to assess the balance and blend of the choir as a whole and to pick out detai…

Comment by DavidWilde January 2018 permalink
Funny typos you've seen/made in worship aids
I can particularly recall seeing two unfortunate errors. One was a simple typo, S S Wesley's anthem "Blessed be the Dog and Father". But quite how a combination of plainsong and a William Byrd mass ended up referred to as "plain …

Comment by DavidWilde December 2015 permalink
Old churches have bad acoustics
We had a parish priest (quite a few years ago now) who took the view that microphones are non-negotiable (although our parish church has a very nice natural acoustic). He wanted the choir to sing a Taize style piece with various choir members singin…

Comment by DavidWilde June 2015 permalink
Choral pitch going flat -advice
CHGiffen wrote Notes: We still see vestiges of the usage of two woodwind instruments pitched a half step apart, namely clarinets in B-flat and A, as well as piccolos in D-flat and C. In the case of D-fat piccolos, this was just as likely due to th…

Comment by DavidWilde January 2015 permalink

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